Ben Carson was the next person to audition for the voice of the frog. “As a teenager, I would go up to people with rocks and hammers and baseball bats,” Kermit said. “And people know the story when I was 14 and I had tried to stab someone.”

Colbert called security before inviting Trump himself to try out for the voice of Kermit.

“The American dream is dead,” Kermit said. The line was from a speech Trump gave during his presidential campaign.